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RTF to Text Converter
Strip RTF back to readable text, without the font tables and control words.
Drop an .rtf file here, or click to choose one
Converted on your device — the file is never uploaded
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Quick Tool Overview
The RTF to Text Converter follows the format’s own structure — groups, control words and skippable destinations — so font tables and stylesheets disappear and escaped characters come through correctly.
- What it does
- Converts RTF markup to plain text
- You give it
- RTF text or an .rtf file
- You get back
- Readable plain text
- Best for
- WordPad files and legacy database fields
About the RTF to Text Converter
RTF is what WordPad saves, what old systems export, and what plenty of database columns still hold. Open one in a text editor and the content is buried under control words, font tables, colour tables and stylesheets — {\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl… — with the actual words scattered between them.
Paste the RTF and get the text. The parser follows the format’s own structure: groups in braces, control words with their parameters, and the destinations — font tables, colour tables, stylesheets, embedded pictures, generator notes — that a reader is meant to skip entirely. Escaped characters come through properly, so \’a3 becomes £ and \u233 becomes é, paragraph breaks become line breaks, and table cells become tabs.
Key features of the RTF to Text Converter
Destinations skipped
Font tables, colour tables, stylesheets and pictures are dropped whole.
Escapes decoded
\'a3 becomes £ and \u233 becomes é, fallback characters removed.
Structure kept
Paragraphs become line breaks and table cells become tabs.
Tab cleanup
Turn tabs into spaces when you need flat text.
No library
The parser is part of the page, so it works offline.
How to use the RTF to Text Converter
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Paste or drop the RTF
From WordPad, an export or a database field.
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Read the text
Markup, tables and pictures are skipped.
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3
Tidy the tabs if you like
Turn tab characters into spaces.
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4
Copy or download
Plain text, ready to use.
Frequently asked questions
That is the font table, colour table and stylesheet — the parts that describe how the document looks. They are groups a reader should skip, and they are skipped here.
Yes. RTF escapes them as \’a3 or \u233, and both forms are decoded — including the ASCII fallback character that follows a \u escape, which has to be dropped.
Cells become tab-separated and each row becomes a line, which keeps the data usable in a spreadsheet.
No. A .doc is a different, binary format. Some files with a .doc extension are really RTF inside — if yours starts with {\rtf1, it will work.
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